- Hi guys, so you have seen plenty of my video
in first class, business class, and also
you have seen a lot of Instagram pictures out there
of people enjoying themselves
sitting in premium classes travelling.
Now, very few people actually talk about
how they're actually doing it,
how they actually achieve that.
This week is not a typical airline review
or flying out somewhere, this is actually
a programme we talk about the latest airline deals
and how to find the cheapest airfare.
The idea is to enable you to travel better
and travel more frequent with this knowledge.
So as you know, Qantas recently started
the longest Dreamliner flights connecting non-stop
between U.K. and Australia.
So this is about 17, 18 hours flight non-stop
between London and Perth and on to Melbourne.
And you don't want to end up sitting in economy
for such a long flight, so we will explore
the cheapest way to fly in business class.
We also look at how to compare Garuda Airline
first class fare from their website direct
with an online travel booking site.
And then we'll look into Malaysia Airlines A350
because a lot of fans has request me to review that.
So there are many tools I use
to look for the cheapest airfare.
So here's a couple website, which I found really useful
in helping me to travel better.
So here I'm gonna share with you.
The first website is called ExpertFlyer.com.
So ExpertFlyer is a travel intelligence website
that shows you fares, seat availability, seat maps,
award, seats opening alerts.
There's a free version and a pro version.
I'm not selling the website here
so you can come on here and have a look
the free version is very limited
so I believe is about hundred dollars per year
or ten dollars per month to use.
What I want to show you quickly
is looking up that Qantas Air tickets
the Qantas airfare from London to Melbourne.
So I'll type in the code here in fare search,
Heathrow, Melbourne,
and travelling days I put at random 24 of, and Qantas, QF.
So I'll actually just bring up all the fares here.
So this is what the website does.
It's bringing up all the published airfare right now.
And if you're not familiar with the air tickets,
how they code it, is actually the price
of each ticket is coded in a separate booking class.
So it's fell into a separate booking buckets here.
What we are interested is looking at business class,
so I'll filter into B, B is business class.
The lowest tickets, this is without tax,
without additional fuel surcharges,
it's 3,822 US dollar Qantas one way.
Qantas Heathrow to Melbourne, D Class.
D class is a discount business class
and then you've got a higher fare class, is C Class,
then the full fare business class is J Class.
So your fare range from 3,800 to 5,900,
so this is quite expensive,
you can see from Heathrow to Melbourne.
What I would try is, because we know that nonstop
from Heathrow to Melbourne, the most direct flight
is the most expensive flight.
So this is probably why it's quite expensive.
Let's try to look at another city pair,
from Frankfurt to Melbourne.
So you might have to transit in London.
Flying Frankfurt to London, and in London to Melbourne.
So let's have a look.
Okay, so the fare came down a bit.
If you remember earlier it was 3,800 now it's 3,400
from Frankfurt to Melbourne.
So let's try to keep playing again.
So this is why you need this website,
you need to do a lots of research.
I'm gonna try the Paris, Paris to Melbourne.
Okay, look at business class,
there you go, much better 2,700 in business class.
So I'm quite happy with this fare.
This is one of the lowest fare I've found,
you can try out many, many city pair.
In fact, let me show you one of the cheapest one
I found out here, is from Cairo to Melbourne.
But from Cairo you have to go to Dubai,
Dubai to Melbourne, basically flying on Emirates.
So Cairo to Melbourne, as low as $1,261 in business class.
And remember this is before tax and fuel surcharge.
Even the first class fare is very cheap,
$2,500 for a one-way Qantas, Emirates to Melbourne.
So after finding out a cheapest city pair,
flying that Qantas non-stop from UK to Australia,
we can try CDG to Melbourne on the date 24th
QF which is Qantas Airlines code,
I mean you can type in, and I'm just used to it
so it pick up the short code very quickly.
And now it brings up this availability and schedule.
What we need to look at, is to look at
D class available pair, because there's a connection.
So the first connection is CDG to Heathrow,
and on British Airways A320,
and then on Qantas 10 Heathrow to Melbourne.
So you need to look at D class available
in both connections.
So if that's available here,
you should just proceed to a website
to book the lowest tickets on Qantas.
And just to show you the price from London to Melbourne
on Qantas websites, on the 24th,
this is the most direct flight.
You're flying direct on the Dreamliner,
London to Melbourne via Perth,
and that ticket price is 3,300 pound
in the lowest buckets business saver tickets,
which, converting to US dollar,
it is 4,700 US.
Okay, now let's have a look at the flights from Paris,
which should be a lot cheaper,
'cause we found a much cheaper fare
from ExpertFlyer just earlier.
So Paris to Melbourne, okay.
This is the one we found earlier.
It's identical, the timing.
The flight is BA from Paris to London
and then connecting Qantas 10, London to Melbourne,
2,800 euros, let's just do this
and see how much converting to US dollar.
So the airfare from Paris to London to Melbourne
is 3,479 US dollar, that's about 1,300 US dollar in savings
than direct flight from London to Melbourne.
However, you have to factor in the positioning cost
of moving yourself from London to Paris
to start your journey there.
There's a bit of inconvenience, you lose a bit of time.
But however, if you're looking at
a cheaper savings, this is tremendous.
Okay, the second thing I want to show you is
compare some of the price from an airline website
to a travel agent website,
see who can get you a cheaper fair.
Especially first class, business class,
when the amount is bigger,
so you see a bigger savings as well.
So for example, I was looking at London to Jakarta.
In first class on Garuda Airlines.
So I'll put in a date I want, which I think is May 19.
So let's have a look what Garuda is selling
on their official websites.
So they have a direct flight on that day.
It's selling 2,181 pounds.
Okay, so what I want to show you is a site called momondo.
Momondo.co.uk or momondo.com and let's have a look.
See, if we found a cheaper tickets on momondo website,
and I'll show you what momondo is actually.
So on the same day, London to Jakarta.
So momondo is a site that links to many travel agents site.
It's a search engine basically.
Search the lowest air tickets on many travel agents sites.
And then bring you the most reliable link to book.
So yeah, so we found a cheaper fare here,
Garuda, 2,107 pound.
Go back to Garuda website, Garuda is 2,181.
So here we save about, a good 75 pounds.
So what you do is, you go to, go to the sites,
so momondo direct you to that particular site,
offer the cheapest fare compared of all the sites.
And I have to say that sometimes it works,
you find a cheaper airfare, sometimes you don't.
Sometimes the airline website is the cheapest.
So you just need to try out all the possible ways
to found that saving for yourself.
Now I also want to show you a good resource here,
since you're flying in first and business class,
you're getting a lot of miles, so let's not waste of that.
So there's a good website called WheretoCredit.com
So what it does is, like say for example,
if I'm going on that Garuda Indonesia Airline flight
and I knew the booking class was A Class
from my previous research or on ExpertFlyer,
you found out one way or the other,
what this site does is, it really have a matrix here,
on all the frequent flyer programme for each airline.
How many miles you earn.
Yeah, so you have the base scenario,
and you're at tier 1, tier 2, tier 3.
Tier 1, 2, 3, means you're silver, gold, platinum,
frequent flyer of each airline programme.
So Garuda is part of SkyTeam, so SkyTeam carriers
here you can accrue miles and earn miles
on all of these frequent flyer programme.
In fact that, go to the calculator, is even better.
So I'll type in from Heathrow to Jakarta
on Garuda Airline in A Class,
so in this way it's very fast,
it shows you which programme you can earn the most miles on.
Although be careful, the more miles you earn,
it doesn't mean the easier you can redeem a ticket,
because each airline programme have different
redemption level as well on their award miles.
So guys, last thing today, is a lot of viewers
are commenting that they want me to fly
the Malaysia Airlines A350, do a review,
and some of them also want to fly themselves,
because it's some very new plane,
the flagship of Malaysia Airlines at the moment.
So, well I found the best deal,
is looking at Malaysia Airlines website.
For that aeroplane, you go to deals sections.
It doesn't matter which country website you go to,
you will come to the same page in section,
then what you can do is select
from the city you want to depart.
For example I want to fly from KL,
because the A350 fly from KL to London and to Tokyo.
So let me just look for return fare in business class
and there's so many options here,
so many cities on offer that,
you know, okay here Tokyo Narita,
3,699 Malaysian Ringgit, this is below a thousand US dollar.
This is business class return, below $1,000 round-trip.
It is about six and a half, seven hours each way,
so this is tremendous, tremendous value here.
Also I want to tell about Malaysia Airlines,
they have a lot of very good airfare
from Thailand and from China.
So you just need to go to their website and start searching.
Let's say from Bangkok, let's see if I can find a good one
for you guys, to Narita.
And I'm gonna put in some random dates in there
and I'll prefer travel in mid-week.
Mid-week is always better.
So, put in business class, and see,
yeah, so in fact, that you can see
the fare is very decent here.
This is also a code-share with Japan Airlines,
so Japan Airlines 787, so okay,
we learned a cheap way to fly Japan Airlines as well.
So Malaysia Airlines has a code-share with Japan Airlines,
There you go, this is their own mah-toe.
737 Bangkok to KL and then a long connection,
and then Malaysia Airlines A350.
So 13,250 Thai Bahts.
And then return, let me fly the same thing,
okay Malaysia again, 13,320.
So the total I came up is 26,570.
You can fly four sector, including if you want to fly
Japan Airlines 787 on the way out,
returning on the Malaysia A350,
$851 all-in business class, tremendous value.
So here's a good, really good deal, to fly the first class.
Let me show you, on ExpertFlyer
you can search the award availability.
So I'm just typing Narita to KL,
and let me put a random dates, plus minus two days.
You can search the award availability of Malaysia Airlines.
I want the first class.
So, let's just wait for a little bit
to get the results back.
There you go, there's four seats available.
Keep in mind there's only four seats
available in that A350.
All four seats are available for award seats.
So you can use your miles, so there you go.
I can even look up the seat map of this flight.
So all you need is 40,000 miles on American Airlines
AAdvantage award miles between Tokyo and Malaysia.
40,000 miles roughly cost about 800 US dollar.
So 800 US dollar, you can fly the first class
on Malaysia A350, which is a very good deal.
Website I mentioned today is ExpertFlyer.com
which you can check flight availability,
the seat map, fares, et cetera.
And the second site is called momondo.com
which you can compare the airfare from many websites
and then take you to the cheapest website to book.
And the last website I mentioned is WheretoCredit.com
So thanks for watching again,
and your feedback is very important.
If you have any specific question,
please send me in all the details.
I will try my best to look into them,
and see you next week.